A Conversation with Adelle Waldman

This conversation series continues with Adelle Waldman, the author of the new novel Help Wanted. Waldman, as interviewers have noted already, published a novel that is a notable departure from her prior work, the best-selling The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. While her zeitgeist-seizing debut skewered the Brooklyn literati and proved to be one of the more significant American social novels of the twenty-first century, Help Wanted is something else entirely: a striking portrait of low-wage workers at a big box store in upstate New York.